The Habit of Being (Masterplots II: Nonfiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Flannery O’Connor
- First Published: 1979
- Type of Work: Letters
- Time of Work: 1948-1964
- Setting: Near Milledgeville, Georgia
- Principal Characters: Flannery O’Connor, Regina Cline O’Connor, Sally Fitzgerald, Robert Fitzgerald, Maryat Lee, Cecil Dawkins, John Selly, A.
- Genres: Nonfiction, Letters
- Subjects: Current events, Philosophy or philosophers, Politics, South or Southerners, Authors or writers, Literature, Religion, Rural or country life, Writing, Farms, farmers, or farming, Letter writing, Creative process, Sick persons, Catholics or Catholic Church, Diseases, Biography, Thought or thinking
- Locales: New York, NY, Connecticut, Milledgeville, GA, Saratoga Springs, NY
Form and Content
“I always answer any letter I get, at once and at length. This may be because I don’t get many.” The Habit of Being, a collection of more than eight hundred of Flannery O’Connor’s letters, reveals the truth of her first sentence and the understatement of her second. Assembled by O’Connor’s friend and correspondent Sally Fitzgerald, the wife of O’Connor’s literary executor, the collection begins with a letter to O’Connor’s agent in 1948 and concludes with a barely legible, scrawled note to Maryat Lee written six days before the...
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